Jacquard card-punching machine



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JACQUA'RD CARD PUNGHING MACHINE. No. 395,07 Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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JAGQUARD CARD PUNGHING MAGHINE.

No. 395,075. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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UNITED STATES HENRY BLAOKFD. PAYNE, OF NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO A. G. JENNINGS & SONS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW. YORK.

JACQUARD CARD=PUNCHlNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,075, dated December 25, 1888.

Application filed February 7, 1888. Serial No. 263,262. (No model.) Patented in England September 25, 1885, No. 11,412.

To aZZn-hom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BLACKFOR PAYNE, of Nottingham, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Jacquard Card-Punching Machines, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent of Great Britain for fourteen years from September 25,1885, No. 11,412,) of which the following is a specitieation.

The object of my invention is to provide improvements in the head of machines for punching holes in cards to be used in J acquard looms.

The invention consists in the details of improvement that are more fully hereinafter set forth.

Reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, t'ormi ng part of this specification, in which 1 Figure] is a plan view of my improved card-punching machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section on the line 0 c, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a front view of the machine.

A in the accompanying drawings represents the head of the Jacquard card-punehin g machine, which may be of ordinary or suitable form. The head A carries on its sides gud geons u or other pivots, which are adapted to rest in suitable bearings, I), supported by the machine. The punches 1% pass into holes (Z in the head A, and are held therein free to slide up and down.

\Yithin the head A are a series of holes, e, arranged approximately at right angles to the holes (I. The holes 8 open into the holes (7, as shown in Fig. 2.

D is a series of rods, which pass within the holes 6, and when moved lengthwise are adapted to pass oxer the upper ends of the punches 13. Each rod D carries at its outer end a thin strip, f, of brass or the like. The several. strips f are contained within an opening, g, in the head A. The rods D also carry springs'a', that are arranged to press the rods l) forward or from over the holes (I.

E are a series of longitudinalmovable keys or rods carried in the head A, and which preferably extend slightly beyond said head, as shown. These keys or rods E carry on their inner ends oneror more thin strips or wards, 5o 71., arranged at about right angles to the strips f, as shown.

The wards b may be guided at their ends, if preferred. hen a key E is pressed inward, its ward 7L will press inward the strips f in its path, and thereby certain of the rods D will be moved over the punches B. As the head A is now lowered to punch the holes in the card F that is upon the die-bed G, the rods D so passed over the punches l3 will prevent said punches passing up the holes (Z, and will thereby hold the punches B to their work. As it is necessary that one or any desired number of holes maybe punched at one descent of the punches, I provide the inner edge of each ward h with one or more projecting wards proper, "1', which will engage a corresponding number of strips f.

In the drawings I have shown six punches 13 on each side of the machine. These punches can be used singly or in any desired combination-s11ch, for instance, as the first and third, the second and sixth, and so on. -)y arranging the projections i on each ward h, so as to select the desired combination of strips f and punches ll, only one of the, say, thirty keys E need be pushed in at a time to coy'er the particular punches l3 desired. The number or combination of punches B to be selected by the (litlerent wards 7L can be indicated by suitable numbers, words, or other symbols placed on the outer end of the keys E, as shown in Fig. 3. Thus, when it is desired to punch, say, one hole, the key marked, say, 1, will be pushed in, its ward h then engaging only the strip f for the punch No. 1, only one punch 13 being thereby brought into use. W'hen more than one hole is to be punched, the key E, denoting the desired number or combination of punches, will be pushed in, when the ward it, having the proper number of projections 1', will select the required nun1- ber of strips f and rods D to bring the correct number or combination of punches B into use. I may also provide keys E and punches D, set in different positions to punch the gathering peg-holes Z) and the lacingholes 19 hen the head is lowered to punch the holes in the card, the punches B that are not engaged by rods D will slide in the holes (I, and will therefore not cut the card.

The cards F may be moved along by any suitable means.

To oscillate the head A, I provide said head with an arm or projection, H, on the side most distant from its pivots, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This arm H has an opening, j, within which works an eccentric or cam, I, carried by a shaft, 1, supported in suitable bearings, m. The shaft I may be rotated by a belt, 11, passing over fast and loose pulleys 0 p, or by other suitable means. As the cam l rotates, the head A will be oscillated on its pivots a I); but the cam or eccentric I may be applied to the head A otherwise than by the arm II, if preferred.

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is by me regarded as equivalent to the notching of the wards 71.

Having now described my invention, what I claim isl. The head A, having the punches l3 and corresponding rods, D, and the strips j", secured to and carried by the rods D, combined with the larger series of keys E, adapted to engage said strips f in prearranged groups to actuate certain of the rods D and lock certain of the punches, substantially as described.

2. The head A, having punches B, and rods D, and the stripsf, carried by and secured to the rods 1), combined with the keys E, and wards 71, secured to said keys and wholly supported by said keys, said wards it being adapted to engage prearranged groups oi said strips f, substantialh as described.

The above specification signed by me this Sth day of December, 1887.

ll. BTACKI I'). PAYNE.

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